Tag: European Parliament elections

• Second-order campaigns? European Parliament elections on parties’ Facebook pages

  

  European Parliament campaigns on Facebook were real but second-order: parties posted less of a surge, and their audiences responded much less.

  Tristan Hotham

  Research papers

  Election campaigns, elections, Europe, European Parliament elections, Facebook, Parliament, political parties

• The 2019 EU Elections: British Brexit Balkanization

  

  So here we stand, between a rock and a hard place. With both ardent remainers and hard brexiteers we have seen the political landscape shift enormously underneath us. Within this the Brexit Party have engaged in a very powerful social media campaign, one which has utilised both organic and targeted communications to probe at the…

  Tristan Hotham

  Politics

  Brexit, Britain, elections, Europe, European Parliament elections, political parties, UK

• Personality Crisis? Did the “personalisation of politics” lead to UKIP’s rise?

  

  In the May 2014 European elections, Nigel Farage and the UK Independence Party (UKIP from hereon) polled in first place, with 26.6 per cent of the national vote. Despite UKIP’s now ostensible popularity, they are academically under analysed as a political movement. This literature review will examine where I believe there is a major gap…

  Tristan Hotham

  Politics

  Britain, European Parliament elections, Party leaders, political parties, populism, UK